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WIRE BOUND BRooM. No. 355,225. l Patented 1360.28, 1886.

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NITED STATES PATENT Carica.

MARK A. SMITH AND CHARLES F. YAEGER, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA; SAID SMITH ASSIGNOR TO SAID YAEGER.

WIRE-BOUND BROOlVl.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,225, dated December 28, 1886.

Application tiled January 30, 1886. Serial No.- 190,320. (No model.) I

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that we, MARK A. SMITH and CHARLES F. YAEGER, citizens of the United States, residingV at Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Bound Brooms; and We do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form' a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a horizontal section taken across the lower end of the broom-handle. Fig. 2 is a'vertical section of a portion of a broom. Figs. 3, 4,' and 5 ,are details. Fig. 6 is a view of a broom complete.

This invention has relation to improvements in brooms; and it consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of devices, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

The main object of our invention is to provide a trrn engagement or connection with the broom-straw and handle at the head of the broom, as well as the neck thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, A indicates a broom stick or handle, which may be that of an ordinary broom having its lower end-wedgeshape, or beveled and Ilattened on opposite sides, as indicated at B.. This tapering or reduced portion is designed to be let into the head of the broom through the neck thereof, and is provided with one or more transverse perforations, as shown, for the passage of fastening-wires, as will be presently explained.

C D indicate the binding or stay wires, which are bent about midway of their length to pass around the opposite edge of the broom-head, and their straight branches overlap each other in a line coincident with the longitudinal center of the head, so as to receive together the loops of the transverse fastening wires F.

These binding-wires C and D are provided at their opposite or inner ends with short bent arms E, which are designed to be forcibly turned intot'he straw, and held therein by means of the fastening-wires F. By having these arms E pass on opposite sides of the stick or handle it will be seen that the binding or stay wires will be prevented from drawing out or leaving the head as long as the transverse wires remain in their normal positions. When these binding or stay wires are placed in position upon the broom-head and the branches E forced in position, the wire or wires F are then provided with a loop at one end to receive the overlapped portions ofthe said binding-wires on one side of the head. The free end of this wire is then passed through the broom and the aperture in the stick or handle, after which it is turned over the wires on the opposite side and into the broom-straw. This f transverse fastening is of van approximately S shape, so that the bends at opposite ends will receive the binding wires on opposite sides of the head.-

The neck of the broomstraw may be secured to thev stick in the ordinary manner of wiring, and the usual sewing may be applied beneath the fastening at the head.

Having described this invention, what we claim, 'and desire to secu reby/ Letters Patent, 1s-

In a broom, the combination, with a stick,

of binding-wires passed around the broomstraw and having their ends turned into the straw adjacentto and at 'opposite sides of the stick, and secured at their overlapping outer portions bythe transverse wires, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our si guatures in presence of two witnesses.

MARK A. SMITH. y CHARLES F. YAEGER.

Witnesses:

E. E. JENKINs, JOHN NURRE. 

